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Spot the distinction
“I am very happy to testify . . . I have nothing to hide. I’m going to . . . cooperate fully.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci, 2022
vs.
“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment.” — Fauci, Wednesday
We say: Fauci took the Fifth to keep away from self-incrimination again and again in response to lawmakers’ questions on COVID, although a presidential pardon shields him from prosecution and the questions involved key choices during the worst health disaster in a century.
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Nothing to cover? Ha! He disproved that 111 instances.
This promise
“Our five city-run grocery stores will set prices . . . at 30% below typical retail prices.” — Mayor Mamdani, Monday
We say: Please. Those shops gained’t open for years (if ever).
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And in the event that they do, they’ll take pleasure in humongous subsidies paid for by metropolis taxpayers — making them, as Jonathan Turley factors out, “the most expensive groceries in the city.” That is, till provides run out.
This excuse
“I [don’t turn] over private, identifying information of the citizens of New Jersey.” — NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill, Wednesday
We say: The feds search knowledge on 6,600 non-citizens who registered to vote within the Garden State (together with 400 who did vote), however in vowing to by no means comply, Sherrill referred to them as “citizens.”
Memo to Sherrill: Your state is a component of the US, not its own nation — and Washington oversees immigration coverage.
This insinuation
“After decades of . . . covering for Jeffrey Epstein, the British and American governments seemed to have lost interest in prosecuting sex crimes, [until] the Tate brothers criticized Israel.” — Tucker Carlson in The New York Times, July 23
We say: Most clearly, if law enforcement have been cracking down on people who criticize Israel, they’d be concentrating on a lot of the US population.
Then again, Carlson appears to suppose the CIA reads his textual content messages, the 2021 Capitol riot was a “false-flag” operation and Israel could have had Charlie Kirk killed.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
